Category: News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: July 22, 2009
Tags : cheaters gentlemans club, rhode island teen strippers
A legal loophole in local laws in Providence, RI, says there’s nothing preventing ‘gentlemen’s clubs’ from hiring teenage girls as strippers, and one such club has had girls as young as 16 on their stage.
Laws regulating strip bars and other establishments are set and enforced by the city or county in most states in the U.S., but there has never been a law in Providence that regulates the age of exotic dancers. Basically, no law says a girl has to be a certain age or older to take her clothes off for entertainment purposes.
At an establishment called Cheaters Gentleman’s Club, police in the area have learned that a 16 year old girl who ran away from home has been slinking around the brass pole for some time. The club owner refused to comment to local media, but he hasn’t done anything wrong by hiring her.
This type of thinking – that just because no law says something is wrong means it’s ok – has never sat well with me. A 16 year old girl is a child and if society and it’s members are so morally incompetant that they think it’s right to have her prance around on a stage naked for their ‘enjoyment’ just because no-one is stopping it from happening, then wow. No wonder governments at all levels are getting more and more involved in our personal lives, dictating what’s right and wrong. We can’t figure it out for ourselves?
Inquisitr readers: Do you have a moral compass? Would you go to, or stay in a strip club if you knew the naked girl on stage was only 16 years old?
Where does it stop – How young is too young?
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Jul 22, 2009
Paul, i would patron a sleezy establishment that would put anyone under 18 in front of me naked…
As a world traveler, it seems to me that 18 is a western standard, where many countries in central and south america for example, many 15 year olds have similar rights to US 18 year olds…
Jul 22, 2009
Since this is the internet I bet a lot of people are making plans to visit Rhode Island right now. And when they get there they'll probably ask for 'shoe on head'.
Jul 22, 2009
I'm still amazed that anyone would pay another person to get naked.
Jul 22, 2009
Until now, I would have assumed that the girl was at least 18… Knowing that she is 16, I wouldn't go – not that I go to strip clubs anyway
Unless you grew up on a farm in a town with less than 1000 people, nowhere in a 1st world country is a 16 year old still a child! I sure wasn't and I don't know any 13+ year olds that I would consider as a child (naive like a 5 year old).
Jul 23, 2009
I want to see teen girls naked so bad that I had a daughter with my sister. I am waiting for here to hit he magic number 13 when I can hit it.
Jul 23, 2009
Girls are so hot, when they get naked i get so excited i fart and somtime poop myself. teen girls should move out of the farm fields and into the strip clubs. 13 is a teen, why not free them up from the laws and have they do dirty things to me.
Jul 23, 2009
Are you kidding. Your all going to hell where you will be ass raped by big black guys.
Jul 23, 2009
Road trip time, hell yeah Rhode island.
Jul 23, 2009
I'd draw the line at 12, but 13 and up would be fine.
As long as they have tits and a nice ass.
Jul 24, 2009
If it bleeds it breeds, plain and simple
All this crap with protect the children, screw the children let them lead hard lives too, they can protect themselves.
Jul 24, 2009
Ass raped by big black guys? That will be so refreshing after nailing all those young girls!
Jul 30, 2009
for some reason i have trouble being offended by this, and now a sudden urge to go to rhode island
Jan 21, 2012
Ya'll are pathetic and sick and on your way to prison!